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For a robotics project that I am doing I need to create a low latency webcam stream from our robot. I wanted to use a Raspberry Pi and a USB webcam (a Microsoft LiveCam). I googled around for a while and found lots of tutorials to stream with the Raspberry Pi Camera but only a few that were to stream a USB webcam. Finally I found this tutorial which worked once I adapted it for my webcam and home network. The latency barley noticeable! See this video to see the latency. I will summarize the tutorial with some modification for using a USB webcam instead of a screen capture. Note that you will have to replace the IP address with the IP address of you client computer (the computer which is viewing the stream).